Bulletstorm was heavily stylized and filled with plenty of crazy content. Its weapons were no exception. The Flail Gun shoots chain-linked grenades that can wrap around enemies and blow them up. How cool is that?

Made from combining a stick pony with rocket fireworks, Frank activates it by stuffing it in a zombie's stomach and then standing safely back. The rockets send the zombie into the air before exploding, setting fire to any other zombies they come into contact with en route.

Killing zombies is always fun. Killing them with a stick pony and making them explode is even more fun.

The sword of Cloud Strife, the blond haired, blue eyed hero of Final Fantasy VII, is clearly ridiculous. The boy barely looks as if he has the strength to lift a mug of steaming cocoa, let alone a blade that's almost as big as him. In reality, a sword that size would be impossible for anyone to effectively wield, but of course, this is not reality, this is video games.

Cloud's given the Buster Sword by his friend Zack Fair, who, in the conclusion to Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, dies protecting Cloud. In his dying breath, he hands his sword and legacy on to Cloud. Zack's the second person to make use of the overcompensating weapon, with Zack's mentor, Angeal Hewley, being the first.

It's become one of the most iconic symbols of the Final Fantasy series, and made an appearance in several games after VII, including Kingdom Hearts and Before Crisis.

Dolls (Final Fantasy X)

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Lulu's arsenal consists of a range of... dolls. Because what you really need when battling terrifying monsters and when your job is a Guardian protecting the Summoner on her pilgrimage are kids' toys. The otherwise bad-ass looking Lulu looks supremely ridiculous in battle sequences as she holds her dolls gently in the crook of her arm, facing off against monsters like vicious goblins, iron giants and imps.

She can use various dolls that she collects throughout the game, all of which are modelled on famous Final Fantasy creatures, like the Moogle, Mute Cait Sith, Moomba Warrior and Raging Cactuar. They attack by waddling off and bumping into enemies – unsurprisingly they don't deliver much damage, so it's probably better to have her use her devastating black magic spells instead.

As anyone who's tried to get to the discounted shelf in the supermarket knows, old women can be a force to be reckoned with.

This old dear is essentially dynamite wrapped up in her favorite pink mac and clutching her walking stick. When a worm sends her off to attack, she walks off very, very slowly towards her target, muttering quietly to herself. In most of the games, her muttering is inaudible, but in WormsDC she can be heard to say "I can't remember his name."

When she reaches her intended destination, she, well, explodes. Help the Aged would no doubt have something to say about that.

It was rumored that in the original programming she was intended to sometimes become confused and stumble back to blow up the worm that set her loose, but this never ended up in the final version of the game.

The Cerebral Bore basically drills into enemies' heads and makes their brains explode. It's alien technology, as apparently aliens had a need for a device which blew brains up. Or perhaps it just made them giggle.

It fires a projectile made of hooks, a drill bit and explosives, which locks on to your victim's brainwave patterns. Once that's done, there's nothing they can do but wait for the inevitable. The cerebral bore then attaches to their head, burrows into their skull (displacing all that pesky brain matter through a suction tube) and, as if that wasn't enough, as a grand finale, explodes.

The only downside was that you necessarily need to use it on sentient enemies, since it would be hard to drill out the brain of an enemy that, in fact, has no brain. Could rule out a few people, too.

The cluckshot launches rather surprised chickens at enemies and is particularly hilarious due to the fact that it's in Gears of War 3 – a game that, let's be honest, does sometimes take itself just a little too seriously.

The fowl weapon recently featured in the 'Thanksgibbing' event in the King of the Hill playlist, where all shotguns were replaced by the cluckshot.

To get it in the main game, you'll need to play through act four, chapter one on insane difficulty and make sure not to touch any of the ash bodies. If you do that, you'll earn the 'respect for the dead' achievement and Griffin will declare that maybe COGs aren't all bad and let you into his hideout. There's a chicken in it, which will explode in a flurry of feathers when you interact with it.

Then you'll need to attempt to get your hands on three sets of joke ammo that will fall away from you just as they're within reach, which you'll find in act four, chapters two and three. After that, a chicken will fly in as air support and reward all members of your party with the cluckshot. Happy clucking!

Oichi is a young girl – Nobunaga's younger sister – meant to add that 'kawaii' (cute) element to the game. Apparently, the idea of having children going around killing things was decided to be not so cute, so they gave her a silly weapon – a cup and ball.

Called a Kendama, Oichi's weapon has a number of attacks where she launches, spins and kicks the ball at enemies.

In Samurai Warriors 3, since Oichi was now all grown up and had even got married, the decision was made to give her a more mature weapon. They gave her a hula hoop.

If you were going to venture into a deep, dark, dank dungeon, what else would you take along with you as a weapon but a teddy bear? After all, nothing's likely to strike terror into the heart of an enemy than that cute, cuddly little teddy bear face.

Enemies will surely cower in fear as you move to strike them down with this... fluffy... weapon. As you'd imagine for a soft toy, the teddy bear doesn't actually deal much damage but it does heal the Prince with every blow he rains down on his enemies. It's also indestructible (if only real teddy bears were, too, there'd be far less tears at bedtime).

You can find the teddy bear in the mechanical tower while you're in the present time.

The weapons in a game based on the South Park universe was never going to be sensible, and happily, the game did not disappoint.

In the game, a comet is heading towards the happy town of South Park, causing all sorts of strange things to happen. Killer cows, robots and living toys have invaded the region, and it's up to you to kill them in the silliest way you can.

Weapons on hand include the aforementioned cow launcher, yellow snowballs and a toilet plunger launcher. When the cow launcher is successfully targeted at an enemy, they will end up with their head stuck in the cow's bum. If that doesn't kill them, they'll probably die soon after since they won't be able to see.

Described as "the absurdity of a sex toy with the lethality of a baseball bat", the Penetrator is essentially a massive purple dildo. That you hit people with.

They might start laughing as you approach them, but it's actually a pretty powerful weapon, so they'll stop laughing pretty fast once you whack them with it. Don't let the way it wobbles around fool you – this baby packs a punch.

In celebration of the game's launch, gigantic purple dildos were delivered along with preview copies of the game to video game web sites. Sadly, unlike in the game, they proved rather delicate, and not at all suitable for fighting with.

Professor Genki's Mollusk Launcher is possibly the silliest weapon in Saints Row The Third, which is no mean feat in a game where other weapons in your arsenal include a giant purple dildo and a fart in a jar.

The Mollusk Launcher will fire live octopuses (and yes, it is octopuses, not octopi, we checked) at enemies, which will attach to enemy's heads and control their minds, making them become confused and fight for your team – after they break into a funky dance.

The Launcher comes in a fetching pink and is described as containing, "Singing, exploding, cuddly, mind-controlling octopi." (Octopi is still wrong.) The octopuses will refuse to control some targets, for example Brutes, as these are considered 'unethical'.

Sadly, it was a pre-order bonus item, included as part of the Professor Genki's Hyper Ordinary Pre-Order Pack, and is currently unavailable to get hold of any other way.

Mr. Toots is a magical rainbow farting unicorn. Of course he is, because that makes perfect sense. He's an Easter egg weapon in Red Faction: Armageddon -- simply wield the flatulent beast and laugh as he destroys enemies by pointing his butt at them and letting rip with sparkly stink bombs that devastate foes and furniture alike. This super smelly bonus weapon was unlocked as a thank you to fans of the series after the Red Faction: Armageddon demo was downloaded one million times.

To get hold of Mr. Toots you can either buy him with salvage once you've beaten the game or, alternatively, hunt him down at the end of the level Marauder Defenses, hidden in a secret area. You know you want to.

You can also purchase a Mr. Toots avatar pet that will "fly in on a rainbow of happiness" and prance around your avatar on Xbox Live for 240 Microsoft Points.

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